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When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue, Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.

In the first stanza from William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper,” how does the speaker get his job?

A) He is exchanged with money through a bribe.
B) He is given to his employer as a favor to his mother.
C) He is sold to his employer by his father.

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Answer:

C) He is sold to his employer by his father.

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The answer is c, in the passage it states how he cried when his mother died and his father sold him
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